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The Ultima Codex, is the next phase in Ultima fandom online. I will no longer be posting news updates to this website. However, this site will remain online for the foreseeable future, both for reasons of posterity and as the home for the various project, utility, and patch downloads that were its beginning and which form its core. In time, these too will be moved over to The Ultima Codex, though it’s likely you’ll find them here for a long time to come as well.

[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]5038927227[/flickr] Produced by: ultimavforipad Website: ultimavforipad at Tumblr Just like the name of the project suggests, this is an attempt to get Ultima 5 running on the Apple iPad. At present, the project is on hold pending the…

[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]4948763183[/flickr] Produced by: Fahed “Foody” Al Daye Though it has yet to produce any releases, this interesting-looking RPG maker software, presently under development, was announced on a short-lived thread in the Exult forums, and is obviously quite heavily…

[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]4907855120[/flickr] Produced by: Dr. Cooper Website: Ultimoid @ GameBuilder Feel like rescuing a princess again? Or maybe taking a space shuttle mission to a distant world? Has it been too long since you journeyed into the Abyss? Ultimoid…

Produced by: Quantum Toast Website: Mobile World of Doom! Releases: This is an “exact” re-creation of Akalabeth for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, which even goes so far (as can be seen in the screenshot) as to re-create the…

[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]5030757730[/flickr] Produced by: Blair Leggett Website: Ultima4 (Offline) Written by a self-described “out of work programmer” who “spent [a] couple of months (while looking for a job) building Ultima 4 to showcase [his] online programming skills,” this is…

[flickr size=”thumbnail” float=”left”]4122093867[/flickr] Website: Master System 8 (Offline) This is a flash-based, online-playable version of the Sega Master System version of Ultima 4, which Ergonpandilus Dragon (who informed me of its existence) asserts is “the best version of U4 to…

[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]3884084863[/flickr] Produced by: Chris Hopkins Website: Ultima IV Part 2 – an Ultima parody Releases: * A “continuation” to Ultima 4, this is Chris Hopkins’ take on an Ultima spoof. As there is some plot to the game,…

[flickr size=”small” float=”left”]5353135710[/flickr] Produced by: David Randall Website: Ultima 5 for TI Calculators Releases: * * An ambitious project to port Ultima 5 to the Texas Instruments 68K programmable calculators, this remake took a little over a year to reach…